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(archive/mbox).
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| dexvert
| Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox)
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| Text File (text/txt)
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| Mailbox text, 1st line "From jsq@cs.utexas.edu Sat Feb 2 14:32:23 1991", ASCII text
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| siegfried
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